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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1938
Page
11
A fragment notes there are 35 known species of birch. It references protection of cellhouse guards and a study on psychiatrists and wardens in the penal problem, praising candor and cooperation in aging futures research.
Funeral services for Oliver Walkup a longtime Amarillo resident were held at Boxwell Brothers Funeral Chapel. He died at his home on Van Buren Street. Walkup formerly owned the Retail Merchants Association and was a member of several local groups. He is survived by his wife a son a daughter and four brothers and a sister. Burial occurred at Liano Cemetery under Boxwell Brothers direction.
Rev. C. L. Sharp pastor of the Fort Worth Spiritualist Church will return to Amarillo around June 20 to hold meetings in the Herring Hotel. He has been in Amarillo for two days visiting Mrs. Lark and Mrs. L. Gibler before heading to Pueblo Colorado.
Fifty thousand Shriners wrapped up three days of public events in downtown Los Angeles at Seventh and Broadway. They presented pet alligators to the mayor and staged a portable electric chair show as crowds watched. The group announced Baltimore as their 1939 convention city and prepared for an electrical pageant in Memorial Coliseum.
Rev Sharp will visit Colorado Springs and Denver as a convention speaker for the Centennial State Spiritualists Association before returning to Amarillo to hold meetings.
Port Arthur Boy Scout Troop No. 60 will visit Amarillo Thursday June 16 as part of an extended Texas and New Mexico trip. Twenty two members led by Scoutmaster E Hansen travel with their own truck and camping gear. Blasphemy remains a crime in most states.
Clara Bow, the red haired screen star, will have a Caesarian operation on June 20 for the birth of her second child. Dr Harry Blodgett cited prior birth difficulties and said Miss Bow is in splendid physical condition. She is at Santa Monica Hospital in Hollywood.
Lyle Ward 18 and sister Heloise 17 disabled by a sealed car suicide after their parents’ divorce. A note said they were sorry life isn’t worth living. They had lived apart with grandparents since the divorce and were said to be despondent over their father Harold Ward and mother Mrs Donald Webert.
In Lenoir County North Carolina on June 9 Democrats outpolled Republicans with over 4300 ballots cast. Only two Republicans received a single vote each for the coroner nomination. H C Phillips and Louis Cameron. party officials considered three options coin flip runoff or drop the race, with both candidates undecided.
Natives kneel in Guino Batan as Mayon Volcano erupts with intensified lava and ash showers. Legaspi portmaster reports the crater spewing fiery rock with ashes falling on villages and plantations across four provinces in Southeastern Luzon.
The final program in a four part series airs this afternoon at 5 45 P M on the Columbia Broadcasting System. Frank Bane executive director of the Social Security Board will be interviewed on Social Security Every body s Business by Ruth Brine of Columbia s educational staff in a quarter hour program.
A boa constrictor has been sighted in dry bushy areas, suggesting it prefers arid scrubland habitat. The report notes its presence in the vicinity, with observers warning residents to keep clear of dense vegetation where the snake may hide.
Warden James A. Johnston of Alcatraz says crime is overlapped by insanity and presents a 6000 word paper to the American Psychiatric Association. He describes prisoners as a mix of delusions, violence, feigned insanity, and various mental conditions.
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